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Engel’s Liquid-Metal Technology Could Be a Hit
A technology leader in plastics, the Austrian firm鈥檚 collaboration with innovative metal molding firm Liquidmetal is drawing 鈥渙verwhelming interest.鈥
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China’s Appetite for Advanced Molding Technology
Do automation and advanced molding technologies still offer U.S. molders safe harbor against low-cost competition?
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Blow Molding Challenges Embraced at Metro Mold
“Others mold difficult parts. We mold the impossible.”
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Two-Shot Molding Helps Make Reshoring Cost-Effective
With help from labor-saving technology, a maker of children’s dinnerware finds a ‘Made in USA’ solution to quality & delivery issues.
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Custom Molder Expands in ‘Leaps of Faith’
Who would embark on an $8.8 million plant expansion without new orders in hand? Someone who knows his customers very well.
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Beefier All-Electric Machines With Enhanced Control Features
Presses designed to dismiss the perception that all-electrics can’t handle larger, heavier molds.
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‘All-Purpose’ Screw for Injection Molding Handles a Wide Range of Polymers
A mixing section with replaceable dams is said to remedy the limitations of so-called “general-purpose” injection screws.
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Reunion Party Celebrates World’s First Thermoformer
In one room, several centuries of experience at the granddaddy of all thermoformers.
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Machine Guards Get in Your Way?
Easier access to the point where a robot deposits parts on a conveyor鈥攖hat鈥檚 what Carl Morris, president and founder of Itech in Arden, N.C., is looking for.
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Rethinking the Injection Screw: Is It a Trend?
Renowned screw designer Robert F. Dray wrote to me recently, lamenting that injection molding screw design has not received the kind of attention that the extrusion industry has paid to perfecting this fundamental processing component.
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One of the Hottest Areas of Plastics Molding
Answer that question with a definitive “Yes” by registering to attend “Thermoplastics Composites for Automotive” (TCC Auto 2016) on June 15-16 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich.
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High-Tech Molder Modernizes Its Fleet
EPC replaces older presses with its first all-electrics, in integrated cells from a single source.
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